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A Victorian domestic melodrama of contested inheritance and concealed identities, in which a disputed stewardship plunges several families into intrigue. Schemes of surveillance, accusation, prosecution and flight intertwine with secret alliances, sudden awakenings and daring escapes as characters seek a missing testament and the truth behind apparent usurpation. Revelations and confrontations expose fraud and hypocrisy, bring about the downfall of corrupt figures, and ultimately resolve competing claims and loyalties around the estate.
A case came under the author’s notice some few years ago, in which a man, having sustained injury to the head, by the combined effects of a sunstroke and a fall, remained in a helpless and torpid state for above three months, and then suddenly made a steady recovery. Except for the length of time the state of torpor lasted, there is nothing, to members of the medical profession, specially remarkable in the case.
BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.
G., C. & Co.